BATTLE FOR CONTROL
The word Control means: to exercise
restraint or direction over; dominate; command, to hold in check; curb: to control a horse; to control
one's emotions.
(dictionary.com), this definition presupposes that one can exercise restraint
or direction over something or someone. One can also hold something or someone
in check when he or she has control over that thing or that person. We can therefore
hold our minds in check in order to direct what we brood over or think
what we perceive and what we allow to stay on our minds and what we let go.
Most often when you conceive a new idea, it is very difficult for that
idea to gain grounds in your mind. The new idea or thought has to fight with
the old idea which has gained grounds and is deeply rooted in the mind. It is
therefore very difficult at times for one to carry out a new plan or initiate
any new plan conceived in the mind because the new idea must first of all fight
to win the battle in the mind and gain grounds and be deeply rooted, that is to
say it must overcome the old idea before it can gain consideration.
When you indulge in any act that is contrary to your views/values, you
would be seriously criticized in your mind. This is because you have allowed
the flow of a contrary thought into your mind. This sets the battle for control
and supremacy in motion in the mind between the new action and the values/views
that have gained grounds.
The life of a man is the outcome of the thoughts or ideas that gained
grounds and matured over time. I believe you can never become what you have
never thought of or imagined. What we become in life invariably is that mental
picture we created and watched it day and night and prayed that picture into
being. That can clearly be seen in the dressing and way of life between two who
grew up in different environments. For example: someone who lived all his life in
an estate and someone who grew up in a crowded room in a slum.
When you ask little children what they want to become in future, they
talk of wide range of careers and professions. This is because most often they
might have seen someone in a particular professional uniform they admire. For
example, most little girls talk of being nurses in the future because they
might have gone to a health post and seen a nurse in a neatly dressed ironed
green and white uniform. The image of
that nurse imprints on their minds, therefore whenever you ask what they would
want to become in future they don’t hesitate to say “I want to become a nurse”.
However, when people do not have mastery over their minds, they have no
control of their minds; other people may dictate for such people just like
little children who mostly do not grow to become what they wished of becoming
during their childhood days. This is due to the fact that their parents direct
the affairs of the lives of these little ones and therefore play the role of
the minds of these little ones.
In the same vein, when these children grow with these mental childhood
pictures, these pictures gain grounds in their minds. When this happens one is
able to work toward becoming that picture in the mind.
We can have control of our lives if we have control over our minds.
What picture of yourself or what you want to become in the near future
and beyond do you have in mind?
